Author: Rob Moura
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Retrospectreview: On You Are Free, Cat Power Read The Flayed Corpse of Alt-Rock Its Last Rites
On her fifth record, Chan Marshall encoded the dying dream of the alternative explosion into a record about obtaining (and maintaining) agency.
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Spectreview: Yves Tumor – The Asymptotical World EP
Yves Tumor dives even further into the ecstatic power of the guitar on their surprise-released new EP.
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Spectreview: Spellling – The Turning Wheel
Tia Cabral takes her unique artistic voice to new heights in the spellbinding, baroque songs of The Turning Wheel.
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Retrospectreview: Patrice Rushen’s Straight from the Heart Still Slaps After All These Years
Virtuosic keyboardist Patrice Rushen's best-known work has endured for a deceptively simple reason: smart, simple, glorious songwriting.
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Left at London Has a Place For You Here
Pop wunderkind Left at London speaks about the making of her genre-defying debut record, the joys of collaboration and the pitfalls of online stardom.
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Spectreview: Bryan Away – Canyons to Sawdust
Elliot Korte's new record as Bryan Away foregrounds a lush, baroque fantasy with the cold reality of entrenched human behavior.
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Spectreview: Hiatus Kaiyote – Mood Valiant
Melbourne neo-soul titans Hiatus Kaiyote return to showcase everything they do well (and a little more) on their splendiferous new record.
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Spectreview: Mt Fog – Guide to the Unknown
Mt Fog's Guide to the Unknown is a compelling, almost meditative collection of synth textures and sylvan melodies.
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Spectreview: Squirrel Flower – Planet (i)
Squirrel Flower's new record finds Ella Williams' tense, riveting folk rock heightened by a production that radiates heat lines.
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Spectreview: SAULT – ‘NINE’
SAULT's temporarily-available fifth album, both abject and therapeutic in turns, broadens the mysterious UK collective's sound ever so slightly.